Title
To Fall Or Not To Fall: A Visual Approach to Physical Stability Prediction.
Abstract
Understanding physical phenomena is a key competence that enables humans and animals to act and interact under uncertain perception in previously unseen environments containing novel object and their configurations. Developmental psychology has shown that such skills are acquired by infants from observations at a very early stage. In this paper, we contrast a more traditional approach of taking a model-based route with explicit 3D representations and physical simulation by an end-to-end approach that directly predicts stability and related quantities from appearance. ask the question if and to what extent and quality such a skill can directly be acquired in a data-driven way bypassing the need for an explicit simulation. We present a learning-based approach based on simulated data that predicts stability of towers comprised of wooden blocks under different conditions and quantities related to the potential fall of the towers. The evaluation is carried out on synthetic data and compared to human judgments on the same stimuli.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Ask price,Computer science,Synthetic data,Visual approach,Artificial intelligence,Perception,Physical phenomena,Machine learning,Robotics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1604.00066
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenbin Li 00031100.56
Seyedmajid Azimi2100.56
Ales Leonardis31636147.33
Fritz, Mario42250140.82